ID 1250825
Lot 8 | A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRS
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 80 000
ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN GORDON, POSSIBLY AFTER DESIGNS BY JAMES 'ATHENIAN' STUART, CIRCA 1760
Each with cartouche-shaped en chassis padded back, arms and seat, covered in floral beige, cognac and cream floral cut-velvet, the moulded frame carved with a central foliate clasp with husk trails issuing beaded mouldings and terminating with acanthus leaves, above a shaped, fluted lower back-rail and front-rail, both with a palmette patera carved to the centre, the arms with foliate carved terminals, the supports with rising acanthas leaves at base issuing pearl beading, on cabriole legs headed by carved palmettes terminating in scrolling feet, numbered I and XIV, refreshments to the gilding
40 in. (102 cm.) high; 28 ¼ in. (72 cm.) wide; 29 in. (74 cm.) deep
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied to Simon, 1st Earl Harcourt (d.1777) for Nuneham Park, Oxfordshire;
thence by descent and possibly those from the suite photographed in the Drawing Room at Nuneham Park, circa 1913.
Private collection, France, acquired circa 1950-60;
thence by descent.
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